I revisited Iron Knob in the Middleback Range in late 2023 whilst on a road trip to the Eyre Peninsula. I swagged there overnight on a bit of grass beside a few straggly trees in a space designated as a … Read More
I’m slowly going through my archives once again and I came across two industrial images of the Dry Creek Power Station in Adelaide’s north-western suburb of Dry Creek that is owned by Engie, the giant French electricity company. It looks … Read More
Whilst I was going through my large format archives I came across a black and white industrial topographical photo of the old Osbourne Power Station and the Penrice Soda Products plant. I’d forgotten all about it, even though I had … Read More
I recently scanned some more Bowden negatives. They are supplementary in the sense that they were rejected on my initial selection for some reason. An example is this image of the Adelaide Brass Castings factory,
I am moving on from primarily working on this website to the next stage of the project, which is to make a photo book.
I have been going through the remnants of the archive on an old Windows based PC that I had used in the 1990s. Its hard disc had collapsed — the blue screen of death — and then the back up … Read More
I photographed a lot of the commercial architecture around Bowden-Brompton. The photography was before the rejuvenation of the area started to reverse the continual decline in the population from 1947 to the 1980s, due to the intrusion of new industries … Read More
In the 1980s Bowden-Brompton was a mixture of housing, factories, shops and small offices and warehouses. I was surprised by this mixture, given that Bowden is less than 4 kilometres from Adelaide’s CBD and adjacent to the Adelaide Parklands. It … Read More